· Public charity
Advanced Education Research & Development Fund
Aerdf will conduct inclusive research and development programs so that diverse teams of educators, researchers and developers can tackle intractable teaching and learning challenges that disproportionately affect black and latino students, and (continued on schedule o) students of all races experiencing poverty.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of ADVANCED EDUCATION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $297,367 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $326,867 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $207k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $74,000 |
| TEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC | $48,000 |
| DISTINCTIVE SCHOOLS | $41,000 |
| ALIQUIPPA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,600 |
| CHANGE THE TUNE INC | $20,000 |
| DIVERSE CHARTER SCHOOLS COALITION | $20,000 |
| ELITE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $19,000 |
| CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOLS - LOS ANGELES | $12,600 |
| THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC | $10,500 |
| GOOD TUTORS | $10,000 |
| NEVADA RISE ACADEMY INC | $8,667 |
| CHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS | $8,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $297k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MCMIDDLETOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT3× · 2021–2023 · $203k
- MXMalcolm X Shabazz High School3× · 2021–2023 · $181k
- VUVISTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT2× · 2021–2022 · $175k
Funded once
- MUMILPITAS UNITED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $31k
- EJEAST JASPER CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $14k
- THTHE HARDY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +134%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…
To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
Creative City Public Charter School's teachers, students and parents share governance and cooperate on curriculum and community decisions, building on the inquisitive nature of children to drive the project-based arts-integrated…
Urban discovery academy develops design thinkers who lead by example, making active, positive contributions to their local and global communities.
To equip all students with the academic knowledge and character development necessary to set forth confidently on the path to college and life filled with success.
Learning by design, a new tk/k-5 charter school in south los angeles, is designed to foster educational equity and cultivate diverse students becoming thoughtful and courageous change makers and problem solvers of tomorrow, through a…
To provide rich content and solid skills instruction in an environment that champions character and personal academic achievement. carbon valley provides a public eduction to students preschool through grade 8.
We are committed to academic excellence by vigorously engaging students in a rigorous, student-centered learning environment that will foster the development of global citizens.
Vega Collegiate Academy is designed with an extended school day and a slightly longer school year focusing on developing strong skills in literacy and math. It executes an academically rigorous curriculum aligned with common core standards…
West Ridge Academy Charter School is a K-8 Public School with the vision to prepare each student with an exemplary educational experience allowing each student to meet his or her highest academic and character potential.
Dcs provides a high-quality education in a safe and supportive learning community for students and families, empowers students with diverse talents, delivers rigorous and culturally relevant instruction, and fosters creativity, inquiry,…
To provide an extraordinary public school education with high academic achievement for all students. Our ultimate goal is that through Project Based Learning, arts integration, parental involvement and community outreach, the students…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diverse Charter Schools Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chicago Mobile Makers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC ↗
- Who funds Distinctive Schools of Illinois ↗
- Who funds CHANGE THE TUNE INC ↗
- Who funds DIVERSE CHARTER SCHOOLS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ELITE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Nevada Rise Academy ↗
- Who funds THE HARDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: New Schools Fund · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Advanced Education Research & Development Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.